Events in the connected city (part one): alt focus.
I'm trying to develop a new driving idea for the PhD, giving it some grounding and possibly a unifying structure: a rallying call, if you will. It's early days, but I'm pondering a shift in focus - from both events and technology to the context in...
VIP Art Fair
via vipartfair.com The internet has the best festivals - arty ones at that. Should you click on the vipartfair.com link above you'll get to the 'VIP Art Fair', which from one angle looks like a shop window for artworks. There's more to it though, ...
RSAnimate: getting that message across.
I'm a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, but I've talked about that before. Why am I a fellow... it's partly to support work like this: The range of expertise that they attract to the RSA events is astonishing at times, tapping into a wealth of ...
Data journalism.
Have I mentioned how much I admire the work of David McCandless and the very idea of 'Information is Beautiful'? You can get the book, a great Christmas present for the more cerebral - or visually stimulated - members of your family. You can follo...
Edinburgh Fringe: constitutionally challenging.
Recently, in the past few weeks, I was informed that I'm a member of the Festival Fringe Society in Edinburgh. There are a couple of hundred members, with varying degrees of contribution to the society and festival it supports, and they are the fo...
Event Technologies workshop: slides.
As flagged a month or two back I recently took part in a workshop organised by Edinburgh Napier, or more specifically my colleagues at the university. The theme was 'event technologies', from planning and logistics software to virtual meeting spac...
Travelogue 13: 'national icons 27.11.02'
This post came at the end of a very rewarding trip through the hot centre of the country. I would recommend a trip to anyone - it's a fair way to go but a truly wondrous landscape. ...there's also some stuff about cricket.
Nuit Blanche: older, not any wiser
via thestar.com Toronto has the best festivals. Perhaps. This article discusses 'Nuit Blanche', which brings a million folk out onto the streets for an all night series of art events and what have you. It's hard to see from the article whether thi...
The outsourcing of a blog post - reading list attached.
My girlfriend has a couple of degrees under her belt and occasionally says she hadn't realised how much time lecturers put into planning, preparing and administering their courses - which is very kind of her, sweet really! Particularly so at times...
Kicking off the research process: undergrad dissertations.
The autumn term rolls on, finally slipping into some kind of rhythm as we near the end of Week 4. There's some structure the weeks and we can anticipate what's coming up with greater clarity and certainty as each day passes. There are those on cam...